Enter Surveyor. Queen. I am sorry, that the duke of Buckingham Is run in your displeasure. King. It grieves many : 390 The gentleman is learn'd, a most rare speaker, 400 As if besmear'd in hell. Sit by us; you shall hear (This was his gentleman in trust) of him Things to strike honour sad.-Bid him recount The fore-recited practices; whereof We cannot feel too little, hear too much. Wol. Stand forth; and with bold spirit relate what you, Most like a careful subject, have collected Out of the duke of Buckingham. King. Speak freely. Surv. First, It was usual with him, every day 410 It would infect his speech, That, if the king Wol. Please your highness, note This dangerous conception in this point. Not friended by his wish, to your high person Queen. My learn'd lord cardinal, Deliver all with charity. King. Speak on: How grounded he his title to the crown, Upon our fail to this point hast thou heard him At any time speak aught ? Surv. He was brought to this By a vain prophecy of Nicholas Hopkins. King, What was that Hopkins? Surv, Sir, a Chartreux friar, His confessor; who fed him every minute With words of sovereignty. King. How know'st thou this? 420 430 Surv. Not long before your highness sped to France, The duke being at the Rose, within the parish 440 Men Men fear'd, the French would prove perfidious, Said, 'Twas the fear, indeed; and that he doubted, To me, should utter, with demure confidence Shall govern England. Queen. If I know you well, 450 4:59 You were the duke's surveyor, and lost your office Surv. On my soul, I'll speak but truth. I told my lord the duke, By the devil's illusions 'g'rous for him To ruminate on this so far, until It forg'd him some design, which, being believ'd, 470 It was much like to do: He answer'd, Tush! King. Ha! what, so rank? Ah, hal There's mischief in this man :-Canst thou say fur ther? Surv. I can my liege. King. Proceed. 480 Surv. Being at Greenwich, After your highness had reprov'd the duke King. I remember Of such a time :-Being my sworn servant, The duke retain'd him his.-But on; What hence? Surv. If, quoth he, I for this had been committed, As to the Tower, I thought, I would have play'd The part my father meant to act upon The usurper Richard: who, being at Salisbury, Have put his knife into him. King. A giant traitor! 490 Wol. Now, madam, may his highness live in freedom, And this man out of prison? Queen. God mend all! King. There's something more would out of thee; What say'st? He stretch'd him, and, with one hand on his dagger, King. There's his period, To sheath his knife in us. He is attach'd; 510 [Exeunt. SCENE 1. An Apartment in the Palace. Enter the Lord Chamberlain, and Lord SANDS. Cham. Is it possible, the spells of France should juggle Men into such strange mysteries? Sands. New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous, Nay, let 'em be unmanly, yet are follow'd. Cham. As far as I see, all the good, our English Have got by the late voyage, is but merely A fit or two o' the face; but they are shrewd ones; For, |